"There are no plans to make a tablet. It turns out people want keyboards. When Apple first started out, People couldn't type. We realized: Death would eventually take care of this. And so, people know how to type now. And if you do email of any volume, you gotta have a keyboard."

and

"We look at the tablet and we think it's going to fail. And people accuse US of niche markets! Tablets appeal to rich guys with plenty of other PCs and devices already."

and

"I'm not convinced people want to watch movies on a tiny little screen."

Steve Jobs in 2003, when asked directly by Walt Mossberg of The Wall St. Journal, are you working on a tablet and do you have plans for movies on iPods.

The plan is the plan until the plan changes. Unless they're outright, uhm, prevaricating, and would just as soon not let you know what the plan actually is.